Introducing Dotted Eighth Notes

OK, we're not quite done with eighth notes yet. We can also place a “dot” after them, which as you might expect, adds half as much again to the length of the note (increasing the length to three-quarters of a beat):

We saw earlier that a dotted quarter note often gets together with an eighth note to create a two-beat unit. In a similar way, we can combine a dotted eighth note with a sixteenth note, to create a one-beat unit. “Wait. What is a sixteenth note?” Good question…